Iraqi oil exports fell from a post-1990 record in November to around 2.3 million barrels per day for December, government records indicate.

Figures obtained by the Platts reporting service from Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization indicate that Iraqi crude oil exports declined 272,000 bpd from November's record to 2.35 million bpd in December.

Last month, Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said at a regional oil and natural gas conference that production from the semiautonomous northern region should add at least $8 billion to the Iraqi treasury. In 2013, he said, the region should export, on average, 250,000 barrels of oil per day.